Seib & Wessel: Are Drones Really Making Us Safer?

Former White House anti-terror official Juan Zarate on whether drones are making the terror threat smaller or bigger —- and why al Qaeda might want to strike now.

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the ... what the other things the Yemen has been ground zero for the drone strikes the broader U S Trust rights in Yemen trying get at components of the of the destruction there ... aam has a strong strikes maybe terror threat bigger or smaller bigger in the sense that maybe they've kind of ... an enraged the AQ AP the the the pride in the Arabian Peninsula groups there ... or have a diminished slightly diminished capacity ... to the Russian as part of the fundamental debate about whether or not these targeted strikes actually foam and greater stream ISM and decided that the United States ... keep in mind that the US um ... reportedly given one the strikes killed a key deputy leader for al Qaeda has recently recent weeks ... I'm ... they've vowed revenge and sew Somerset respect Remote that's right this led to some this Anniston ... design that the US ... ah but what I would say is there's no question the strikes matter is widely seen in recent ... days twenty four forty hours ... it's the saddest writes in Yemen because it missed ration pack as officials feel that that's ... one tool that we have an art school kid actually disrupt and so ... that the way that balances again make things worse or not but at the end the day we've threat